Jake Arnott
He Kills Coppers
Pbk published April 2008 by Sceptre at £7.99
ISBN: 0340961015
Britain, August 1966, and the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself. Three characters' fates are irrevocably bound up with this event and its consequences, which reverberate across three decades: an ambitious detective dragged into intrigues of corruption; a gutter press journalist with a nose for a nasty story; and a disaffected petty criminal pushed over the edge by a violent crime that haunts him. An epic story that looks at morality and corruption on both sides of the law and at the very heart of the state.
'Arnott's ability to powerfully resurrect an era is astonishing' Jimmy Boyle in the Guardian
Jake Arnott was born in 1961, and lives in London. His first novel, The Long Firm,
was published by Sceptre in 1999 to huge public and critical acclaim and is now being
made into a television series by the BBC.
